Further to my post enquiring about what reading list strategies and 
technologies colleagues are using I received the following replies.  Mostly the 
responses focussed on the technologies and most librarians did not feel they 
have achieved a good solution.  

Keele - Millennium reading list function too book focussed.  Considered 
Refworks but this also lacks the required functionality required.  Recent 
conclusions are that Sentient integrates well with Blackboard but has mixed 
reviews.  LORLS is free but requires more system support.  Talis Aspire looks 
good but expensive.

Dawson are working with Huddersfield University to exploit functionality in 
dawsonera in the production of resources lists.  

Swansea - current preference would be to use a reference managers like 
RefWorks and Endnote for reading lists as they would prefer not to have yet 
another place to manage reading lists. 

School of Pharmacy - Uni of London -  academic staff put reading lists on the 
VLE (usually in different places).  Staff have access to all modules and can 
check lists.  Library looking for a better solution

Professional body for actuaries - all students are distance learners. They have 
portals for each subject which gather together all the resources a student 
would need to study that Subject.

Other universities looking to find a better solution than they currently have 
are:

Bournemouth 
Bangor 
Liverpool Hope
Central Lancashire 
Roehampton
Southampton Solent 

Information from Mark Bush (Talis Aspire):

Universities currently committed to implementing Aspire and could be 
contacted are:
Plymouth
St. Andrews
Sussex
Manchester Uni
Bolton
Nottingham Trent

From Mark's experience in working with universities on Aspire development he 
considers that the following have done good work on strategic thinking around 
reading lists:
•	Nottingham Trent University
•	Sussex 
•	St. Andrews
•	Cambridge University Library ( the Arcadia Project) 
http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/index.php. 

Good luck everyone!
Angie
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